What happens
The bot writes each run's trace to a generated location like slack-runs/20260802-184219-ded7684e/trace.jsonl — a timestamp and hex id the user never typed and, on a phone, cannot reasonably retype. The reader commands then require exactly that: /grapharc metrics alone replies error: the following arguments are required: path, run_id. To ask about the run the bot itself just narrated, the user must scrape the path out of the previous status message and copy a run id out of a code block.
Observed in a real session: demo stage0 → metrics → usage error; only metrics slack-runs/…/trace.jsonl 15737eca286d (path and id copied from the bot's own earlier message) worked.
Why it matters
The Slack surface's pitch is "one command away from a phone". The natural follow-up to every run — "show me the numbers / the diagram / the replay" — is precisely the command that fails. The bot has the missing information; it generated it.
What to consider
- Bare
metrics / viz / replay (and trace, diff where sensible) resolve to the most recent run under the bot's own slack-runs/ for that channel (or workdir-wide as a fallback), including the run id when the trace holds exactly one run.
- Say what was resolved in the reply (
metrics for slack-runs/…/trace.jsonl · run 15737eca…), so the default never silently answers about the wrong run.
- Explicit path+id keeps working unchanged; the confinement check (
_confined) applies to the resolved path like any other.
Acceptance criteria
In a fresh channel: demo stage0 then bare metrics answers about that run and names it; bare metrics with no prior run replies with a helpful message, not an argparse usage dump.
What happens
The bot writes each run's trace to a generated location like
slack-runs/20260802-184219-ded7684e/trace.jsonl— a timestamp and hex id the user never typed and, on a phone, cannot reasonably retype. The reader commands then require exactly that:/grapharc metricsalone replieserror: the following arguments are required: path, run_id. To ask about the run the bot itself just narrated, the user must scrape the path out of the previous status message and copy a run id out of a code block.Observed in a real session:
demo stage0→metrics→ usage error; onlymetrics slack-runs/…/trace.jsonl 15737eca286d(path and id copied from the bot's own earlier message) worked.Why it matters
The Slack surface's pitch is "one command away from a phone". The natural follow-up to every run — "show me the numbers / the diagram / the replay" — is precisely the command that fails. The bot has the missing information; it generated it.
What to consider
metrics/viz/replay(andtrace,diffwhere sensible) resolve to the most recent run under the bot's ownslack-runs/for that channel (or workdir-wide as a fallback), including the run id when the trace holds exactly one run.metrics for slack-runs/…/trace.jsonl · run 15737eca…), so the default never silently answers about the wrong run._confined) applies to the resolved path like any other.Acceptance criteria
In a fresh channel:
demo stage0then baremetricsanswers about that run and names it; baremetricswith no prior run replies with a helpful message, not an argparse usage dump.